Average Salaries & Working in Germany - How much Money are People making?

Many people are moving to Germany because the working conditions and salary are often much better than in their home country. See how much money you can expect to earn and get some insights from a German.

This are some of the questions i answer:
Could you survive on minimum wage? How much tax and insurance fees do you need to pay? How much do certain jobs pay? How much fees do you need to pay for health insurance, unemployment insurance, care insurance and pension insurance

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[adrianzambrano]

After working in Germany for several years in different cities and PhD in STEM, I can tell you that salaries are not that high as people imagine. After considering expensive rents and high tax, your disposable income isn't much. The benefits come from social benefits, usually nice working hours, paid holidays, healthcare, great cheap alcohol and peaceful country. If you seek making a lot of money, Germany isn't your country. In Europe you probably have look north for higher salaries and Switzerland, in Asia, some highly developed countries like Singapore. If you have a high level of education and work for a good company in the USA and even sometimes in Latin America, are better places to make great money. But hey money isn't everything, you need to evaluate pros- and cons.

[majibento]

From the US here and about to start my first job out of college in Germany. I’m going there for the quality of life, I don’t care that I can make more here — if I die tomorrow the extra savings means nothing, but a strong welfare/healthcare system, fewer stupid people, better infrastructure, lower crime rates, better work culture, decent politicians, beautiful nature and architecture, etc. will have made me enjoy my life every day. I want that peace of mind and I can’t get that here. Everything is fundamentally messed up here and nothing will change in a meaningful way anytime soon

[Titichannel]

Canada: 10 days holiday per year.
normal working hours per week is 44.
if u get sick u don't get paid
no bonus of any kind.
minimum wage 14$ ( approximately 8 euro)
just in case anyone is thinking to move to Toronto area.

[dontasklol]

“Hope no Japanese are watching... they only get 10 (vacation) days a year”
* laughs in American *

[qaysar]

I work in a big car company in Germany as Engineer... and I can tell you the salaries are not high compared to the very high rent (or apartment prices), taxes and high prices of Energy and Benzin in Germany. I really wonder how people here are able to live who get lower salaries. And at some point you have to save to buy a house or an apartment (with something like half a million Euro) because after geting retired, your income gets 60% lower and then you will not even afford the rent of your apartment. I saw retired people who had to move to smaller worse apartments or ask for social housing or shelters. I think life here is not as rosy as people in the third world think. What is worse is: I think the government and politicians in Germany do not care much about this problem, or act as if there is no poor people in Germany at all. Politicians in Germany are rather busy with saving the Earth, recycling and cutting CO2 as their main mission... helping the poor or the middle class in Germany comes as second priority.

[thirdcoffee]

I really like living in Germany. Yes, we have enough problems. But I’m happy. We have a high living standard, very good public transportation, a wonderful health insurance, quite generous working laws etc.
(In comparison to many other countries around the globe and even most of Europe)

[ahmetcangokceer]

I love how the quick shots are organized randomly but not : )

[Humpelstilzchen]

How much you are making now??? , ,Enough,, 😂😂😂👍

[gerryblackphotography]

I'm born in Germany and worked my whole life. maintenance side/ cleaning. Each I earned around 1k. I worked as well in a personal leasing business where I worked more than 8 hours the day and shift work just 1k the month. I was self-employed too and because of taxes, health insurance etc. I was forced to quit my business and fire my 4 workers and go into insolvency. That is the true face of the German government and tax. People are struggling with their wages to pay all bills and still have a life.

[DNGOOfficial]

You deserve way more than 8.2k subs!!! Cheers from Canada

[sarameneses]

Thank God someone who talks openly about economics !!! thank you :)

[lemmings]

taxes are cool but painful. i actually had more money left for spending on random stuff when i was unemployed than when i was working a minimum wage job because when you are unemployed the state also covers your rent (400), your health insurance (180), your tv (17), your church fees and gives you a culture benefit for getting food and culture really cheap. and now you know why you see so many young german people in the park drinking beer in the middle of the day :D

[endrsgm]

i lived in germany for 15 years. i found that no matter how much your gross pay was your net never really changed due to the progressive tax system.

[amandalapanda]

I’m an Australian living in the US. I’m earning more than 3 x what I earned in Australia. I’m working in an office job (for a big company) and I seemed to be earning almost the same as a doctor in Germany, which is wild. Taxes in the US (California) look about the same as Germany and Australia. BUT (and it’s a big butt 😜) you only get 10 days annual leave per year. I find this greatly diminishes quality of life. Now I have money, and all I want to spend it in is travel, but I have hardly any time off. It’s a catch 22.

[mehmeta]

great content.. it is true, you can have a decent life in Germany with social benefits but in my opinion it's hard to earn and save good money in Germany, unless you are self-employed. I'm comparing it with USA and highly developed Asian countries.

[billp]

Working for German TV, I got 31 WORKING days of paid vacation per year. Only Monday to Friday counted, so that came out to a total of six weeks of paid vacation, and you could take that in conjunction with statutory holidays to spin out your time off another week or ten days.

[adamprotz]

I'd definitely watch a video where you talk us through how you personally went about moving to Berlin and settling in - that would be really cool! 😎

[huseynaliyev]

I'm planning to move to Germany and study. So, therefore, your videos help me a lot. I appreciated all your efforts, mate!

[christopherrensor]

While average income in Germany was relatively high in 2019 with ~€3500 as mentioned in the video, the median was much lower with just €2500 (gross income). That means that 50% of the German population earn less than €2500 (~€1700 after taxes and insurances). It's also worth mentioning that you're considered upper class with a net income of around €5500 gross income, but you have to pay the property tax with just a monthly income of around €4500 gross income. If you plan to buy real estate in Germany: Forget it.

In addition, the Bachelor is largely considered being a regular degree (just like the so called Fachhochschul-Diplom in the past) and you will get a job with many of such degrees, but it's true that you won't get the best positions. The reason is simply that there are enough alumni with a Master. So, would everyone get a Master, you would still not get the better position, as there is no increase in upper class positions only because you've got a Master. If your company doesn't provide a better position for you having a Master, it's often true that you will not earn much more than a Bachelor with 2 years of experience in many fields. For some fields (mostly academia and maybe mechanical and chemical industry, medicine, lawyers and teachers) it's true that a Master is needed, but that doesn't count for all the jobs on the market.

[museamuse]

When people say: "Germans do not have sense of humour.' Send them this video! They will change their mind! :)